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Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine is happy to tackle almost any subject on his show — whether it’s his huge BBC salary or a health scare that’s troubling him.  Here, in the final exclusive extract from his  memoirs, he talks about when he feared he had skin cancer, a bout of depression — and the life lessons that his small children have taught him . . . Here's a question: what do you do when you look at your reflection and you see a mole you have never noticed before? Just after the whole Strictly madness came to a juddering halt, I stood naked in front of the bathroom mirror and noticed a deep brown freckle under my left collarbone. The freckle was the size of the nail on your little toe. Not big, but had it been there before? I spoke to the Radio 2 doctor, Sarah Jarvis. ‘You and I are at the very top of skin cancer risk in later life,’ advises Dr Jarvis , a red-head. ‘We have to watch for moles, freckles, anything unusual.’ ‘When is later life?’ I ask. ‘It’s now!’ she tells me. ...

OUT OF THIS WORLD | What's Up In Space - a weekly look at the biggest news coming down to Earth from space Find Your Forecast Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer Thursday, August 10, 2017, 11:37 - The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is brightening our night skies this weekend, but this year, there's some good news and there's some bad news. What and when? First off, the Perseid meteor shower , or simply 'the Perseids', is one of the best meteor showers of the year. Not only does it deliver up to 100 meteors per hour, at least under ideal conditions, but it has the highest number of bright fireball meteors of any meteor shower of the year. A fireball meteor is one that flashes at least as bright as the planet Venus is in our night sky (or enough to be visible despite typical levels of light pollution). The Perseids are caused when Earth passes through a stream of icy, rocky debris left behind by a comet known as 109P/Swift–Tuttle. The meteoroids...

"Jared McLemore is live on Facebook." Those who clicked immediately saw a dark street scene with trees in the background. Then, McLemore, shirtless, rushes into the frame and sits crosslegged, his expression strangely blank . He pours gasoline over his body from a red can. Voices come from offscreen as he fumbles with matches. A second body rushes in, tackling him, but it's too late. The frame is filled with flames. Fully engulfed, but eerily calm, McLemore runs off screen. The screaming begins. *** Rock-and-roll came naturally to Alyssa Moore. Her parents were punk rockers in the Antenna scene of the 1980s. She picked up the guitar and wrote her first song at age 8. At 13, she played her first gig — a kid's birthday party. Music became her passion, her escape from reality. "I've had family problems my whole life," she says. "When I turned 14, 15, it was the worst it had ever gotten. They were fighting constantly. ... My dad was gone. My mom was...